St Swithun’s School welcomed almost 700 runners from 35 different schools to the Hampshire Schools Athletic Association Inter School Cross Country Championships. The course took the runners through the school grounds and they were surrounded by the South Downs National Park in challenging weather conditions. Each school provided a team of runners whose collective finishing positions contributed to...
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Staff, parents and governors couldn’t wait to jump into the newly re-developed swimming pool at Harrogate Ladies’ College when it was officially opened recently. The £½million development was officially opened by Harriet Rae, Sports Prefect at Harrogate Ladies’ College with the help of Alex Jones and Isabel Riall, Sports Prefects at the associated Highfield Prep School. As soon as the pool...
Year 8 pupil Aaron Warburton, from Oswestry School, has been awarded the Clements Cup by the Shropshire Athletics Association. The award was presented to Aaron by Derek Hayward MBE, a former PE advisor who formed the Telford and Oswestry athletics clubs and who has spent the last 45 years overseeing the growth of athletics in the county. The Clements Cup is in recognition for the Best Male...
Felsted School 1st XI hockey player Jessica Olorenshaw has been selected for the England U16 squad after she was spotted in the summer and put forward for try-outs. Over the summer Jess was selected for the England futures cup, playing for the U15 Saxon Tigers team at Oakland’s College and was selected by the coach to captain the side. From this her talents for hockey were further recognised and she...
Four pupils from Taunton School have been crowned English School National Champions after winning their medley relay race at the London Aquatic Centre recently. Seventeen pupils from Taunton School travelled to the London Aquatics Centre to represent the South West in the English Schools’ Swimming Association National Relay competition. Six relay teams had qualified for National Finals following the...
Oswestry School’s U18 netball team have won the Plate Competition at the County tournament. Conditions for the tournament, held at Wrekin College last week, were wet and windy but this did not affect the team's performance. The first match was against Adams Grammar School, where the team won 4-3 with a last-minute goal from Hannah P. The next game against William Brook saw them win 8-2, thanks...
Over fifty teams of children from Westbourne House School took part in their first ever triathlon this week. Grey skies and drizzle could not dampen the spirits of the 150 children, who swam, cycled and ran their hearts out in a bid to raise as much money as they could for their school charities. In teams of three or four with names including Cool Carrots, Running Wild and Golden Eagles, each pupil...
From January, Bishop’s Stortford College will be an MCC Foundation Cricket Hub, giving greater access to superb cricket facilities to a wider group of young people. The MCC Foundation, the charitable arm of the MCC, runs a network of Hubs across the UK, providing free coaching and match-play to state-educated 11-15 year old boys and girls with the aim of improving their cricket ability and boosting...
Taunton School's U14 and U16 netball squads have reached the Regional Finals after finishing top at the County Finals. The U14s went the whole tournament undefeated, beating King’s College, Haygrove School, Wellington School and King’s Bruton and claimed the title of Somerset County Champions. The U16s also had a successful tournament gaining a place in the Regional Finals after finishing...
Felsted School’s tennis and rugby players travelled to new climates over the summer in preparation for the new academic year. The tennis players travelled to Miami for an intense ten days of matches against local schools on clay and hard courts, helping to refine their skills. They also had time built into their tour for other activities such as canoeing, paddle-boarding, sailing, swimming and...
Kent College’s Open Day for 2019 was one to remember this year, with a trio of England’s greatest sporting heroes attending for a morning of coaching followed by an exclusive interview for all to attend. After a morning of coaching preparing the students for the upcoming 19/20 season, prospective and current students, parents (and some lucky staff) gathered in School’s newly opened Great Hall for...
A Bedford School athlete took first place on the podium at the National Schools Octathlon earlier this month. Stephen Simmons is now ranked number one in England for the U17 age group and his performances have placed him as the 19th best U17 Octathlete of all time. Despite strong winds on the first day and heavy showers on the second, Stephen remained focused on each of the eight track and field...
A Year 10 pupil at King Edward's Witley has become the new European Youth Bouldering Champion. Toby Roberts returned triumphant from the International Federation of Sport Climbing European Youth Championships in Brixen, Italy, where he won the Male Youth B section. The competition for him was very tough, with 50 European competitors representing 23 countries, and 17 of the top 20 climbers a year...
Staff at Taunton School have undertaken a gruelling non-stop 12 hour cycle ride to raise money for the charity, Save the Children. The “Staff Charity Fitness Challenge”, which involved cycling on a static gym bike in the front of school, commenced as the sun rose on Friday morning, finishing some 392km and 12 hours later. The aim was to cycle to “France” non-stop, with staff members pedalling as...
Two Bedford School boys have been selected to train in the England Hockey player development programme. Joshua Addo in Y9 and Joshua Stewart in Y10 both demonstrated outstanding talent on the hockey pitch when they attended trials for the England Hockey Performance Centre back in June. Aged just 14 years old, Joshua Stewart was delighted to be selected for the U17 squad - beating off competition from...
Burgess Hill Girls' beach volleyball team have become national champions at the Independent School National Beach Volleyball Championships in Brighton. The team, Tia Homer, Meg McCallum, Olivia Gunn and Jurkowski, were able to draw on their ball handling skills as accomplished netball players for Burgess Hill Girls. Olivia Gunn also plays for Netball Super League team Surrey Storm. She...
Felsted School U18 girls’ cricket team have been crowned National Champions in the Shrewsbury School U18 National Cup after beating Millfield and Shrewsbury. Batting first against Millfield, Felsted set a score of 115-6 to beat, which looked to be an easy target after the opposition scored 102 in their first 14 overs. However some excellent bowling and fielding brought the score level, taking the team...
Taunton School student Cerys Lee has gained a prestigious scholarship to Queens University of Charlotte in America to study Psychology. 18-year-old Cerys, who is studying the International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme at Taunton School, decided to apply to the North Carolina University after discovering its excellent athletics provision. She managed to secure a Combined Scholarship for Academic and...